A review by octopus_farmer
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss

emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Disclaimer: I have not finished any other Rothfuss book. Despite this, I thought the story cute but the tone weirdly infantile. Auri is clearly traumatized (the reasons of which left vague which I preferred), but I got a little skeeved by her main interaction with everything being kissing. I would have liked this more if I hadn’t read the introduction and author’s note as well. I don’t think it’s as weird a story as he thinks it is, and his insistence on
seeing Auri as “broken”  
undermined any sort of complexity he had for her in the story. Oh well.
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